"It really kind of makes you daffy," a nurse, Celeste Kim, said Friday. "You're not sure if you're coming or going."
Ms. Kim added that national holidays, like the coming Labor Day, will be on Saturdays, which are Fridays in the United States, instead of Tuesdays, which would be Mondays.
Kwajalein has about 3,000 residents -- American military and civilian workers; there are virtually no native islanders. It has been a missile testing site for the United States Army. The 4,200-mile distance from Vandenberg Air Base in California was important during the cold war -- it was roughly as far away as Russia is from the United States.
Residents marked the occasion with a two-mile, three-day run, "Run Around the Clock," starting just before midnight Friday, and ending a short time later, on Sunday morning.
Others who are not as active may wonder what happened to their weekend, said Christopher Powell, a senior police patrol officer.
"I'm sure there will be some wild parties tonight and people will have been drinking all night," he said Friday. "And then they will wake up and won't even realize they have missed Saturday."
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